The Secret to Making Friends with Foreigners (Book and Cassette)

Author: Li Yang
Publisher: World Book Publishing Company
Publish Date: 2001-10-01
Features: What sets this book apart from others is that it provides you with practical questions and answers for real-life communication with foreigners! Too much analysis can only make things more confusing. Those lengthy articles about cultural differences might be interesting to read, but they are not practical for one-on-one conversations in real life. In such situations, what you urgently need is knowing what questions to ask and how to respond to others. There are thousands of books analyzing sentence structures and explaining cultural differences between Eastern and Western cultures. This book, however, focuses on practical problems: how to start a conversation, how to break the ice, how to ask thoughtful questions, and how to avoid silly ones.